Is the EPA Afraid of West Virginia?

List of cities where the EPA will hold hearings on carbon dioxide emissions, including from coal power plants.

Notice that none are in West Virginia or any other major coal producing state.

Outrageous.

Cecil Roberts needs to join with the West Virginia Republican Party and demand a hearing in West Virginia.

Time For a Political Sit Down

I have said it before and I will repeat it until it happens. The Republican Party at the state and national level needs to sit down with at least some sectors of organized labor and corporate America to save our industrial sector.

Left wing Democrats are the enemy of business and industrial labor. Nothing makes this more clear than this year's "war on coal." Seventy-nine revoked permits that were pending and one of a mine operating for two years show West Virginia that Obama hates this state and teh coal industry in general. I doubt that other traditional industrial workers are seeing any love from the federal government until they are laid off.

Cap and trade and regulatory warfare will kill off this country's industrial sector. Labor and corporate America both lose in this struggle to deindustrialize the United States. It is time for the Republican Party to address this issue with everyone concerned.

At least sit down and talk with unions like the UMWA whose rank and file have started changing their registrations anyway. Find out how the two sides can work to bring back American industry. labor needs to open itself up to the realities of competitive advantage while we need to examine the fact that this country can no longer look the other way when competing nations do not adhere to accepted fair trade practices.

The very notion of a GOP/labor reconciliation will terrify the left. They take labor for granted in the same way as they ignore minorities. It's time to make this happen.